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The seamstress’s apprentices
One of Prima Crisafalo’s costumes from NEYT’s 2015 presentation of “The Tempest.”
Arts

The seamstress’s apprentices

Grant allows NEYT to train a new generation of costume designers, with a little help from an up-and-coming Brattleboro-based corsetière
By
Richard Henke
Wednesday, May 25, 2016 — Issue 358

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Arts

That moment of contemplation

By
Annie Landenberger

SOUTH NEWFANE-Respecting historic architectural elegance and adding their own imprimatur, Tom Concannon and Ravi Shimpi...

The shining example of a truly loving soul

By
Eugene Uman

BRATTLEBORO-The legendary vocalist Sheila Jordan passed away on Monday, Aug. 11 at 3:50 p.m. at...

The Faux Paws perform Aug. 24

PUTNEY-Twilight Music and Next Stage Arts Project conclude the 22nd Twilight On The Tavern Lawn...

Celtic lineup concludes BMC's Music Under the Stars series

BRATTLEBORO-The Brattleboro Music Center's 2025 Music Under the Stars series at Retreat Farm concludes Saturday,

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News

Touched by tragedy, focused on results

By
Randolph T. Holhut
Wednesday, July 25, 2018 — Issue 469

On March 7, Brenda Siegel of Newfane decided to run for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination. The next day, she learned that her nephew, Kaya Siegel, was dead of a drug overdose. Twenty years earlier, Brenda's brother - Kaya's father - also died of a drug overdose. For Brenda Siegel, one of four candidates vying for the Democratic nomination, opioid addiction is not an abstract issue. It is deeply personal in a way many of us will never know. “I don't...

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Voices

Insults and lies from the anti-nukers

By
Dan Jeffries
Wednesday, April 11, 2018 — Issue 454

I attended the Nuclear Decommissioning Citizens Advisory Panel (NDCAP) meeting held March 22. The meeting brought together Entergy, NorthStar, the state of Vermont, and others interested in the decommissioning effort at Vermont Yankee. Over the past several years, the anti-nuclear community has seized on meetings of this kind to impugn numerous professional organizations that didn't agree with their philosophies on related matters. Entergy asked its employees to always take the high road at the public meetings and to not reply...

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Arts

Student art work now on display at Brooks Library

Wednesday, September 21, 2022 — Issue 682

Students from three housing communities in Brattleboro have created accordion books of artwork and poetry that are currently on display at Brooks Memorial Library in Brattleboro. The project, titled “Image to Page,” took place during outdoor classes sponsored by the Art in the Neighborhood program over the summer months. Staff from the program elicited descriptive words for poems from the students while the students painted and drew. Art in the Neighborhood, founded by state Rep. Mollie S. Burke, P/D-Brattleboro, has...

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